{"id":233870,"date":"2025-10-30T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233870\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:07:12","slug":"shafali-verma-a-redemption-story-waiting-to-unfold-on-the-biggest-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233870\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafali Verma &#8211; A redemption story waiting to unfold on the biggest stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody was very welcoming when I joined the team, and that felt very good,&#8221; Verma said ahead of the big-ticket clash. &#8220;Everybody I spoke to really boosted [my confidence] and that&#8217;s a very good thing for me. Everyone I spoke to, including the coach, captain and Smriti di, they told me to play my natural game &#8211; no fret. Play the way you usually do, and just never panic. So yeah, since I&#8217;m getting so much freedom I will try to respect the good balls and whatever is in my range, I will definitely hit it. I&#8217;ve received a very good welcome, hopefully I&#8217;ll do well if given the chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Everybody was very welcoming when I joined the team, and that felt very good,&#8221; Verma said ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,93660,93658,98817,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-icc-womens-world-cup-2025","10":"tag-india-women","11":"tag-shafali-verma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}